today we published a blog post on the current releases:
https://delta.chat/en/2019-01-27-releases

it's been a lot of work from many people to make
it to this major milestone. Thanks all, also those
not specifically mentioned in the blog post ... 
as DeltaChat continues to gain momentum it's not
so easy to keep track of everyone involved ;) 

there are a few immediate things where we'd be grateful 
for help in the upcoming month: 

- advancing and refining app translations 
  https://www.transifex.com/delta-chat/delta-chat-app/dashboard/

- helping new users in the https://support.delta.chat forum 

- testing and stabilizing the Android release in 
  particular in order to push it to the play store.
  F-droid is quite slow in pushing releases and 
  it's about time to distribute it more widely, isn't it? 

- building a Delta/Desktop release for Windows,
  the last missing platform.

- trying to advance the iOS testflight app 
  to also bring it to the ios app store. 
  Delta/iOS will remain behind the other two 
  efforts but there is not that much missing
  to make it real-life usable. While we have 2-3 people
  who care from time to time for Delta/iOS 
  we don't have or know anyone available 
  who could more majorly help. 

Let's see where we can get in 2019 with what
is hopefully a good start ;) 
holger
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Hi,

unfortunately there are still no mentions/news about the so-called "recommending dedicated accounts" proposal (of the main devs??) of the last October in order to use delta chat.

I'm glad Delta Chat is actively developed, but as of today I am not sure anymore what the scope of the project is: I fear that the proposal has been silently taken for accepted and thus the project turned essentially in developing a fancy mail user agent with a sleek UI (autocrypt can be installed on some MUAs as well the last time I checked).

That change has deep effect on the nature of the project and I've tried in the past (without luck) to start a more structured discussion about it.

Some "words" on the matter would be gladly accepted after 4 months.

Ksenia is also driving many key happenings around DeltaChat, recently the DeltaChat needfinding report and the Delta-XI Kyiv gathering. And there are rumors about new interesting things happening late spring 2019 in Kyiv ;)

I've quite a few concerns about gathering in that country: as you probably know, there's an active civil war in the Donbass region and after the western (NATO but mainly USA) sponsored coup d'etat of 2014 against a democratically elected govern, there has been installed one reminiscent of a fascist Junta, with large parts composed of proudly and active field-fighting ultra nationalist Nazist squads (cfr. e.g.: Azov).

In addition, as in the good tradition of nazi-fascist states, there are proscription lists redacted by the current govern and updated daily, of so-called "enemies of Ukraine" i.e. journalists, writers, intellectuals, but also common people who are denied the entry in the country and risk to be jailed because considered "active spies" and enemy of the "nation".

Are there any other options apart from this Nazi/Fascist run capital?

- helping new users in the https://support.delta.chat forum 

I know that fashion is nowadays increasing important (sigh!) in engaging users (thanks faceboogle!) even in CS circles but it's a bit sad to face this very phenomenon occurring in a project which is supposed to fight back by fostering the use of the decentralized systems like the email infrastructure for communication.

Best.

-- 
Marco